If one word could sum up that horsesh*t of a State Government that we had in Victoria for the last few years that would be it.
November 12, 2010
VICTORIA has added more jobs over the past four years than any other state, with 278,000 more people in work than at the time of the last state election.
Jobs figures released yesterday by the Bureau of Statistics show that Australia's buoyant jobs growth continued in October, with employers adding almost 30,000 jobs in seasonally adjusted terms.
But the strong jobs market has brought out many more job seekers, with the bureau recording a record 12 million Australians - 65.9 per cent of all Australians aged 15 and over - now in work or looking for a job.
Advertisement: Story continues below That lifted the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate to 5.4 per cent in October despite the strong growth in jobs, up from 5.1 per cent in September.
But even on those figures, seasonally adjusted employment has grown by a stunning 375,000 in the past year - including 271,000 more full-time jobs - while unemployment fell by 23,000.
On the more reliable trend figures used to analyse state data, Victoria has added 95,000 jobs in the past year, with jobs growing 3.5 per cent in the state, compared with 3.2 per cent growth in the nation.